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Time to sound the Tall Paul klaxon for me. Give archer some minutes but worth seeing what he can do. Tell Fraser and dibling to put crosses in to him.

Yeah, always liked him. Worked hard and held it up well. For all the stick he got on here, he always tried hard and that’s more than can be said of a lot of players over the years. I also wish him well, but I also thought we’d actually replace him. Going into the season without a target man is actually mental

Forwards are a huge problem. But so is defending like school boys. If we don’t have the forward players to outscore teams, we need to bring in a defensively solid coach to stop us leaking as many goals. Can’t be shite at both ends.

They were much better than us for 80% of the game. At home. His subs then made us even worse. So I’m not sure yesterday is any strong defence of Martin, tbh.

Essentially we don’t seem to play the tactics that will allow him to flourish, which is why it was a strange signing. We played our best football with Che as a target man allowing us to get our crab football further up the pitch. None of the tactics we are employing are getting the best out of any of the squad tbh.

Nail on head.. couldn’t have said it any better. It’s so easy to beat us that we basically beat ourselves every game before the ball has been kicked. Suicidal tactics and naive defending. Also poor subs which make us worse every game.

Can’t see the logic in sticking with him. He’s clearly not tactically astute enough to win games at this level. Need someone with PL experience who can organise a defence and set us up to be difficult to beat.

Fucking shite. Boring sideways negative crap as usual. Barely create any chances and when we do we’ve managed to sign the worst collection of attackers ever

Fucking wake up saints Id be tempted to bring big Lesley on already. Getting completely overrun in midfield

Can’t see archer scoring in the PL if he plays like he did against United. Horrendous performance

Not even just this league. Maybe the whole football pyramid on that showing 😂

Don’t worry, we’ll soon train that out of him

Downes, Fernandes, Lesley, Dibling

We’ve all known for many years that he’s not premier league level. For some reason the club need to re-learn the same lessons over and over again

Another absolutely dreadful striker signing. Fucking woeful today. Weak, lazy and the penalty was atrocious. Can’t accept his lack of running/closing down. Really really poor

Sadly the United fan is pretty much spot on. How are you defining ‘success’? If we had won the championship you’d be entitled to this opinion. However the fact is we stumbled up, despite the crazy tactics, because we went a lot more direct for the playoffs. So the jury is very much still out on Martin’s style. But anyway, I’m sure it will work this time

This genuinely has to go down as one of the dumbest signings of all time, by any club. Imagine spunking so much money on a player that was obviously never going to play. Could only be saints. Just wish we’d get an honest update for once. It’s almost like they know we will all be pissed off at the lack of striker so they don’t want to share any news

Agree, needs a loan. Needs to play every week. Very glad he’s gone out. With end product he could be great but at the moment he is a headless chicken and nowhere near PL level. Interesting window overall. Probs a 5 or 6/10. I still don’t see where our goals will come from; just hope that Cornet hits the ground running.

No shame in being a very good championship striker. Reminds me of players like Dwight Gayle, Le Fondre etc who were prolific in the EFL but just not quite up to it in the PL. He was great last season and I would love if it he steps up. But I agree; we can’t rely on him to get 5+ goals this season. Tbh I don’t know who in our squad we can rely on for that many

Jesus Christ. I hope everyone involved with this recruitment / scouting has been sacked

He can turn this around. Just needs to stop fucking about with silly formations and trusting the old players so much. Play our best players in their best positions. I respect his loyalty to the players that got us up; but unfortunately he has to drop those players. Arma/Smallbone are going to have to do it from the subs bench now imo and earn their way back in. They have looked well off it at this level (which a lot of us suspected the would.) I still think smallbone can adapt to be a good player up here but right now we can’t rely on him as a starter. Downes/Lesley/Fernandes should be given a run of games. That looks like a proper premier league midfield to me.

Ramsdale Sugawara Bednarek ABK KWP Downes Les Dibling Fernandes Cornet Archer I think this is our best 11 now the window is over. I hope we see something close to it soon. Instead of martins square pegs in round holes.

Dunno what all the fucking moaning is about Goal to pass ratio of 1:1,784 Top of the league for most passes per game. This is cinema

For fuck sake Russ What the fuck is that line up. Does he want us to lose?!

Fucking well done saints. Unbelievable. We finally have a goalkeeper. Amazing amazing amazing work.